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hamish@rising.com.au (Hamish Moffatt) writes:
>Thursday March 14 1996 23:24, davidf@syd.csa.com.au wrote:
> > Unfortunately GNAT is crap though.  It's an interpreter not a compiler
> > and it doesn't support tasks (or other "difficult" stuff).
>And so what if it's an interpreter? Seems fast enough to me, and since it's an 
>extension to gcc, you get to use all standard gnu programming tools to go with 

The above is not correct - davidf is confusing GNAT with AdaEd (its 
predecessor - which was indeed an interpreter, and somewhat buggy).

GNAT is a fully fledged Ada95 compliant compiler - which means they've
run it through the full test suite - so it supports the complete language.

Although its error messages sometimes leave a bit to be desired, if your
code is correct, it does compile and run fine.

We've been using it at ADFA for a couple years and are reasonably happy
with it.

Regards
Lawrie

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